I have been reading your column for years, Dan, and now I’m writing you for the first time to ask for a favor. I met this dude online in December and I felt like we had a good connection. He “dumped” me, though, because he was busy and was going through career shit and lived halfway across the count...

The Unhoneymoon
A Saratoga Springs, New York, resort has begun accepting totally defeated husbands and wives for a relaxed weekend that includes divorce, bringing to America a concept already successful in six European cities. The Gideon Putnam Resort & Spa charges $5,000 for a couple to chec...

FRAGGLE ROCK
It was just before 1 a.m. on February 11 when the conflict between Palmer’s Fraggles turned heated. Troopers were called to a residence on Fraggle Rock Court where a subject, undoubtedly under the influence of radish withdrawal, became irate. This is not characteristic of the cave-dw...

On the surface, Meg Anderson’s two CDs, 2007’s Sweet Blue and the released-on-Friday Wended Road, give the impression of a traditional folksy country-western singer-songwriter; that description certainly applies, although more so to her older album than Wended Road. Both albums are primarily laid-ba...

Arctic Swell—Surfing the Ends of the Earth
Winner of the 2014 Banff Mountain Photo Essay Competition Chris Burkard stuns the imagination as he and three professional surfers travel to 68 degrees parallel and cold water surf in the Arctic. Burkard, senior staff photographer at Surfer Magazine and...

A long line of customers stretched from the counter, past full tables, and into the hallway of the The Mall at Sears the first time I went to eat lunch at BurgerFi. Most seemed intent on ordering food, whereas I was still trying to figure out what “BurgerFi” meant. Was it a place where you can eat a...

In Paolo Virzì’s Human Capital ("Il Capitale Umano," original Italian title), the story interweaves three accounts of the same night to reveal the culprit in a hit and run that claims the life of a cyclist. The plot seems simple and straightforward enough, and initially predictable, but viewers soon...

The explosive popularity of craft beer since the mid-1980s has not only fueled jobs and become a viable economic engine across the United States, its driven improvements in the various materials that craft beer is packaged in. For most breweries that serve on-premise and don’t distribute too far bey...

If I’d driven out to the Mat-Su Valley on my own and found a bunch of fresh snow covering the trails, there’s no way I would have bicycled 100 miles through it. But I wasn’t out there on my own. I was riding in the Susitna 100, and whether the ride was fast or slow it’d be embarrassing not to finish...

Julie Goldman has a made a career out of being out, loud, and proud. Her roots in comedy go back to her early teens in Boston, where she grew up in an Orthodox Jewish household and started performing at the age of 15. Goldman began her career in New York City, and during that time worked for three s...